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WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Ada Schjeldahl, Jerry Medlin

Ada Calhoun Schjeldahl, the daughter of Brooke Alderson and Peter Schjeldahl of Manhattan, was married yesterday to Jerry Neal Medlin, a son of Lanny E. Medlin of Brushy Creek, Tex., and the late Carol A. Medlin. The Rev. Paul J. Hartt performed the ceremony at St. John's Episcopal Church in Delhi, N.Y.

The bride, who is known as Ada Calhoun, 28, is keeping her name. She is a writer for and the associate editor of Nerve.com in New York. She graduated from the University of Texas. Her father is the art critic for The New Yorker magazine. Her mother, a former actress who appeared in ''Just Cause'' (1995) and other films, owns Brooke's Variety, an antiques and home furnishings store in Andes, N.Y.

Mr. Medlin, 29, is a performance artist known as Neal Medlyn whose one-man show, ''Neal Medlyn, the Paris Hilton of Performance Art'' will be part of the Howl! Festival tomorrow in New York. He graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Tex. His father is a nurse at Palestine Regional Medical Center in Palestine, Tex. The bridegroom's mother also had been a nurse there.

The bride's previous marriage ended in divorce, as did the bridegroom's.